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Posted on 10.15.09 by Widge @ 1:05 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. One of the things you learn, once you get past the obvious horror career of Vincent Price, is that he must have been a helluva fun individual, because he's just such a funny damn guy. I mean, in addition to being an expert on food and being able to pitch products like a genius. Example here is his appearance on What's My Line? from 1956: Direct link for the feedreaders. Another funny bit comes after the break... Categorized as: TV
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Posted on 10.12.09 by Widge @ 1:12 am
Comments on this: just one. Add your own. So while we were looking at yet another Frankenstein film for our last movie night, I started trying to figure out how to kick off Day 13 of 32 Days of Halloween. But as always, we look to our heritage (it's shallow, but it's a heritage): last year we were watching Judd Hirsch as Dracula in The Night That Dracula Saved The World. So what if we look at television specials, what can we find? Ah, of course: we've posted Vincent before but never the other Tim Burton short film, Frankenweenie. Which I've always just thought of as being better than its title. So...here you have it: Direct link for the feedreaders. And of course, two years ago we were getting scared silly by the Day of the Dead trailer in Japanese. Categorized as: TV
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Posted on 10.11.09 by Widge @ 3:57 am
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own. A fantastic short bit where Orson Welles explains for you the secret of "cold reading," how psychics use it, and how he himself used it one time when he got bored. Direct link for the feedreaders. It took some time, but this eventually found me via Twitter thanks to William Gibson, Colin Peters, and David Metcalfe. For more along these lines, you can check out a great interview Richard Dawkins conducted with Derren Brown, and they lead off with information on cold reading. We posted the entire interview here. Categorized as: TV
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Posted on 10.06.09 by Widge @ 1:50 am
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own. So last year we had one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes (with one of the best endings of anything anywhere), "To Serve Man." Of course, we already gave you some Twilight Zone in time for its anniversary, so what to do with ourselves to start Day 7 of 32 Days of Halloween? Well, instead of sticking with the same show--let's explore the same format: the anthology series. There's nothing I would like better than to post my favorite episode of, say, Amazing Stories, "Go to the Head of the Class." And if you're thinking, "Was that the Halloween episode with Christopher Lloyd?" Then the answer is a resounding YES. What sucks is that episode is second season and only the first season is available Region 1. So damn. So without that option open to us, we'll slip back to One Step Beyond, the anthology series which purportedly dramatized actual events of High Weirdness. This is the first episode, "The Bride Possessed." Direct link for the feedreaders. And because we're on the subject, a word after the jump from a Mr. Mike Patton. (Advisory: inspired noise.) Categorized as: TV
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Posted on 10.05.09 by Widge @ 9:20 pm
Comments on this: 6 so far. Add your own. Can you imagine a world where we didn't have Monty Python? As we mentioned before in respect to a precursor of Python, Mark Evanier has stated (and I wish I could find the original link) that if Python had occurred just a bit earlier, it would have been in black and white rather than color and thus subject to the BBC's policy of wiping. It's just too mind-numbing to consider, honestly. However, we don't have to consider it. We can instead revel--and indeed, wallow--in it. Team Python has put some of their greatest hits online, so we can use them to help celebrate this glorious day forty years ago when Python first hit the television. Back then they were just glad to have the price of a cup of tea. Here's what I think is one of the best musical numbers to ever hit the big screen. No lie. Direct link for the feedreaders. I would also advise you to check out one of my favorite Python bits we've ever posted, in which they invade a morning chat show in 1975. Categorized as: TV
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